Non-linear Slot Packaging for Display Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing packaging assemblies for shipping and display are costly and inefficient, as they require expensive initial packaging and manual placement of products, and the display stands can lose integrity over time, causing display packs to tilt and fail to attract customers effectively.
Innovation Solution
A packaging assembly featuring a display stand with yieldably deforming slots that retain display packs in an upright orientation, constructed from a single sheet of corrugated cardboard with non-linear slots to securely hold display packs, ensuring they remain attractive and visible despite repeated removal and replacement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional packaging assemblies are used with linear slots in display stands, then manufacturing is simple and cost-effective, but the display packs tilt and lose integrity over time due to repeated removal and replacement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies curvature by replacing straight linear slots with non-linear curved slots in the display stand. These curved slots guide the display packs into proper upright orientation and prevent tilting over time. The curved geometry naturally constrains the display pack orientation while maintaining structural simplicity in the overall display stand design.
2Reliability
If display packs are made larger to deter theft, then security is improved, but the packaging assembly becomes more complex and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the display stand structure multi-functional by having it simultaneously serve as both a display framework and a security containment structure. The non-linear slots provide both structural support and theft deterrence through their guiding action, eliminating the need for separate security mechanisms while maintaining display functionality.
3Strength
If manual placement of products is used, then product safety is maintained, but labor costs and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The non-linear slots in the display stand provide self-aligning functionality that automatically guides display packs into correct upright positions during insertion. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for manual placement adjustments by retail employees while maintaining product safety and display integrity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution provides a cost-effective, efficient, and aesthetically pleasing packaging system that maintains display packs in an upright position, reducing theft deterrence and operational costs while protecting products during shipping and enhancing customer appeal.
Implementation Method 1
constructed from a single sheet of corrugated cardboard
Implementation Method 2
yieldably deform and thereby retain the display pack in its desired, upright orientation
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention provides a packaging assembly for shipping and displaying a plurality of products. The packaging assembly includes a display stand and a plurality of display packs, each configured to hold one or more products. The display stand includes a base panel and left and right side panels projecting upward from the base panel's respective left and right edges. The left and right side panels each define a plurality of slots, with each slot of the left side panel cooperating with a slot of the right side panel to form a plurality of matched pairs of slots, each such matched pair of slots configured to receive at retain one of the display packs. Each slot includes a vertically non-linear section configured such that insertion of a display pack into each matched pair of slots causes the side walls to yieldably deform and thereby secure the display pack in its desired, upright orientation, despite repeated removal and replacement of the display packs by customers.